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I don’t want a cure: I value the unique insights, talents and attention to detail<p>Last year I took some tests at my local adult autism centre and it emerged that I tick all the boxes for Asperger’s. I am in my 40s, and I am not alone. There has been a huge surge in adults, especially women, tested …

Just when you thought your much-loved avocado toast couldn’t get any better, along comes this version that’s topped with a perfectly fried egg and pickled red onion. A spiralizer makes fast work of cutting the onion into thin strands, and you can prepare the pickles up to a week in advance, so your …

With a little extra care, these flowers will bloom two times or more.<p>We put up with perennials — and their fleeting blooms — because we love the way they reappear, year after year. But with a bit of extra effort — namely, judicious pruning — the perennials here will offer a repeat performance. (If …

For autistic children, Dorothy Siegel does not believe in paraprofessionals, the teaching assistants sometimes assigned to shadow students in class.<p>To show you why, Ms. Siegel, 70, a longtime special education advocate, grabs your arm, pokes you and forcibly turns your head toward the teacher, the …

If you’re obsessed with takeout like we are, you’ve probably had your fair share of teriyaki chicken. And while you’ve learned to make some of your favorite restaurant foods at home, mastering the art of dumplings and deep dish pizza, there’s always room to expand your culinary knowledge. Teriyaki …

Sayspring, a startup that enables designers to create voice-enabled apps without code ahead of handing over projects to development, has just raised $1.5 million in funding for its efforts, the company is announcing today. The round was led by Compound (formerly Metamorphic Ventures), with …

Having kids of your own complicates the situation somewhat. You hate to see them upset, but you also hate being glared at. You're frustrated, but you also know that you'll be even more frustrated in the future if you give your kid exactly what they want when they want it.<p>But if there's one …

Rhododendron, deutzia, lilac, mock orange, choisya. That’s the names of five common-garden shrubs, right off the top of my head, but I’m a plant geek – it’s my job to reel off botanical Latin as if I’m ordering a pizza. So what about those of us who, according to a survey from the RHS, cannot name …

New skills at no cost.<p>The web and our phones are playing an increasingly vital part in our lives, and that isn't going to stop any time soon. That means we're more and more at the mercy of the people who design and code on these platforms.<p>If you want to be a creator rather than a consumer of apps …

Want one? Here's what you need to do.<p>As the temperatures rise, installing a pool in your backyard probably sounds like a really good idea — until you learn that the average cost of a backyard pool is $20,000 to $30,000. Instead of dropping a ton of cash just to stay cool this summer, you may want …

An Aquarius ALWAYS has their exes coming back.<p>It's the one thing we've all secretly wondered but never outright asked: What *are* you like in bed? Here, how the stars affect your sex skills, and what your partners <i>really</i> think of your performance:<p>Aquarius: The Emotionally Unavailable One<p>Your …

My son has autism. This is the first time I’ve acknowledged that publicly.<p>Last spring, I realized my third-grade boy wasn’t like other third-grade boys. His friends were trying their hand at sarcasm and inside jokes and competing for attention on the playground. They’d picked up that little-boy …

Proficiency, Kaufman says, is really only 20 hours away.<p>Divided into two- or three-hour chunks, that's about a week's worth of practice. As responders to recent Quora threads have attested, that's plenty of time to learn a host of impressive skills.<p>Here are just a sample of the many you could pick …

I have 1,000 worms living in a bin in my basement, eating the fruit and vegetable scraps from the kitchen, along with eggshells, coffee grounds and tea bags. It smells lovely down there, and Charles Darwin would approve. He wrote his last book about worms and their ability to add nutrients to the …

A study out of Stanford University has found kids whose parents waited to enroll them in kindergarten by age 6 (instead of 5) had measurably better scores on tests of self-control by the time they were 7 and 11.<p>Self-control — known to psychologists as "executive function" — is one of the more …